At Attempt to Escape
Bessarabia on the eve of World War II... Soldier Ștefan Brebu is being taken to trial in a prison car as a witness. The escorts were ordered to shoot him on the way "at attempt to escape." A soldier can give testimony in court that is undesirable for the authorities: it was not communists who were shooting at unarmed peasants...
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Cast
Vasile Brescanu
Ștefan Brebu
Serhii Dvoretskyi
Bachu
Valery Kvitka
Tutoveanu
Dzhemma Osmolovskaya
Luminița
Valentin Stoyanov
Macovei
Trifan Gruzin
owner of a horse cart
Konstantin Konstantinov
tavern keeper
Mefodie Apostolov
lawyer
Igor Kuleshov
major
Mihail Badiceanu
Masarescu
Sergei Yakovlev
intellectual man
Vasile Chicu
peasant
Ion Muzica
driver
Overview
Bessarabia on the eve of World War II... Soldier Ștefan Brebu is being taken to trial in a prison car as a witness. The escorts were ordered to shoot him on the way "at attempt to escape." A soldier can give testimony in court that is undesirable for the authorities: it was not communists who were shooting at unarmed peasants...